Mortality from six work-related cancers among African Americans and Latinos

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 565-575

  Loomis, Dana ^a   Schulz, Mark ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Cancer; Epidemiology; Hispanic Americans; Industry; Minority groups; Occupation; Occupational diseases

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CARPENTER; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NOSE CAVITY CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERITONEUM CANCER; PLEURA CANCER; RUBBER INDUSTRY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ADULT; BLACKS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033780473     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0274(200011)38:5<565::AID-AJIM9>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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